MEDIA ADVISORY: More Than 100,000 Remembrance Wreaths to Be Placed at Arlington National Cemetery for National Wreaths Across America Day

COLUMBIA FALLS, ME and ARLINGTON, VA--(Marketwire - Dec 10, 2012) -

What: Wreaths Across America, along with more than 15,000 volunteers, will lay remembrance wreaths on 140,000 headstones of our fallen military on National Wreaths Across America Day, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. This is the organization's 21st year laying wreaths at our Nation's cemetery and marks the largest number ever delivered. A convoy of more than 25 vehicles, including tractor trailers, buses, motorcycles and cars carrying wreaths, veterans, families of fallen soldiers, and supporters, left Maine on Sunday, Dec. 9, to begin the six-day journey to Arlington National Cemetery. The convoy will make stops along the way at schools, veterans' homes and in communities in Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, to share its mission to Remember, Honor and Teach.

Parking: We highly encourage metro use and will provide a shuttle to credentialed media that have registered. Media are welcome to park on Memorial Drive beginning at 7 a.m. or park free of charge in the ANC parking garage beginning at 7:15 a.m. Please note: free parking ends at 1 p.m.

For more information about covering this event, please contact Amber Caron at (207) 513-6457 or acaron@kempgoldberg.com or Arlington National Cemetery Public Affairs at (703) 614-0024.

About Wreaths Across America

Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman, Morrill Worcester, in 1992. The organization's mission, Remember, Honor, Teach, is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as hundreds of veterans' cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond. For more information, to donate or to sign up to volunteer, please visit www.WreathsAcrossAmerica.org.